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> Amanda Fox writes up the porn problem
thekohser
post Tue 11th May 2010, 6:05pm
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An interesting paid-for story on Helium.com:

Wikipedia porn scandal: How and why Wikipedia began removing pornography from their pages

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While it is good for everyone that Wikipedia is taking this step, it shouldn’t have taken a letter to the FBI, a news expose, and threats of pulled funding to tell the current board of directors that this content was inappropriate and needed to be removed from view.

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post Tue 11th May 2010, 6:19pm
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Thanks to an expose by Fox News, the parent company for Wikipedia and Wikimedia has demanded an immediate and comprehensive removal of all pornographic content.
Wait, they did what? I thought they got all bent out of shape because of what Jimbo did and generally were happy that he gave up some of his bits as a result.
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